WHAT’S NEXT FOR 2SER?
Elise Martin attends… Beloved community radio station 2SER is grappling with the big question––what comes next?––as the July deadline for an alternative funding source to save the station rapidly approaches. 2SER has served as a cultural pillar of the community for nearly 45 year
john maus at the metro theatre, 30/04/2026
Fanged Numinous. Bangs Numerous. Today was a lot of explaining, to various barristers and housemates, what retro-futuristic darkwave organum-pop might sound like: Hollow. Sparkly. Eerie. Sweaty. Drony. Avant-garde … where the ‘guard’ is one of any conventions of contemporary pop music, an
All Stirr’d UP
Angus piper reviews: stirr, live at the union hotel 21/03/226 Guitars unorthodoxly utter. The saxophone wails while the vocals clarify the chaos. This is Stirr, live at The Union Hotel for the single release of ‘Broken Arm’. At the Courty for pres, the tables were still drying. You could hear sh
Hellp! Dimes Square is Leaking
Jesse Carpenter reviews: the hellp, live at Astra Kulturhaus 12/03/26 As SURG’s Foreign Correspondent, a coveted position that I recently made up, I went to see The Hellp live at Astra Kulturhaus in Berlin for the strict purpose of ethnographic study of the greater Schaeffer library scene. My find
uh-oh. A twenty-something is yearning again.
I’m standing in the back of a ute screaming my lungs out over The Sydney Harbour Bridge and I’m convinced that I am, in fact, Emma Watson in ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’; except I don’t have the head shape for a pixie cut, and this year’s Triple J champion ‘Never Be Like Y
Winter in Rear View: CAMERON WINTER, LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE 16/02/26
Vance McDonald reviews Cameron Winter live at the Sydney Opera House 16/02/26
How To Take A Fall Review
How to Take a Fall is the four-way split EP by Juno Eclipse, Should Be Sweet (mixed by Georgia Harrison), Charles Carnabuci (mixed by Luke Payne), and Siphon (mixed by Andy Bailey-Hughes). It’s out November 7. If ‘Midwest emo’ is defined by the twinkly, meditative jangle of ‘90s colleg
Dissect HXC @ Monster Mouse Studios, Marrickville Saturday, October 11, 2025
It’s a balmy Saturday evening in Marrickville. Various band members (whom I mistake, on two occasions, for staff) direct people to bathrooms, re-fill the water dispenser, and perch on the couch propped up against a whitewashed wall in Monster Mouse Studios’ open-plan artist’s space. I realise
Old enough to know better, young enough to pretend: 25 Years of The Get Up Kids’ Something to Write Home About
There’s quite the line outside the Oxford Art Factory. Hoodies and canvas jackets are tied around waists, freeing hands to vape or authenticate, photographically, claims of ‘the last time they were here….’. The distribution of flannels is more than standard, but not in-your-face; offset by t
SURG TAKES ON KNOTFEST 2024
Whether it be by eventual death or Rapture, I hope I cross the pearly gates into something as entirely idyllic as the Centennial Parklands on March the 23rd. I sit with fellow journalists, not so subtly rolling my neck to prep for the feat of endurance that will surely be reporting 10+ hours of head